- Lead guitarist and background vocalist for the 1970s-1980s synth-pop band The Cars.
- Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of The Cars) (2018).
- His moody and sinister, surf guitar (mostly) instrumental for Jackie Brown was basically the theme of Sam Jackson's character Ordell Robie.
- Although The Cars are historically known as a synth-driven, new wave band, Elliot Easton's style, and his lead guitar solos, were often of the extremely speedy hard rock nature, sometimes rockabilly, other times jazz, blues, country, a reverberated surf guitar sound, or, on their later albums, played through a processor.
- Some of his guitar solos for The Cars would mimic the notes of the chorus, but only at first before igniting into lighting-fast fretwork.
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